The Awareness Center closed. We operated from April 30, 1999 - April 30, 2014. This site is being provided for educational & historical purposes.
We were the international Jewish Coalition Against Sexual Abuse/Assault (JCASA); and were dedicated to ending sexual violence in Jewish communities globally. We did our best to operate as the make a wish foundation for Jewish survivors of sex crimes. In the past we offered a clearinghouse of information, resources, support and advocacy.

Thursday, July 18, 2002

Jewish-Survivors · Jewish Survivors of Trauma is dedicated to breaking the silence of abuse in the Jewish Community.

Jewish-Survivors · Jewish Survivors of Trauma is dedicated to breaking the silence of abuse in the Jewish Community.

The original yahoo group for The Awareness Center was accidently deleted back in 2001.

The networking group was created to give Jewish survivors of sexual abuse/assault who were members of AOL's Jewish community on line a place to communicate with each other. At the time, Vicki Polin was a JCOMM (Jewish Community Leader online). The group was originally created back in 1997 and later merged with the newly created organization in 1999.

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Survivors ARE Heroes!

The Awareness Center believes ALL survivors of sex crimes should be given yellow ribbons to wear proudly.

Survivors of sexual violence (as adults and/or as a child) are just as deserving of a yellow ribbon as the men and women of our armed forces, who have been held captive as hostages or prisoners of war.

Survivors of sexual violence have been forced to learn how to survive, being held captive not by foreigners, but mostly by their own family members, teachers, camp counselors, coaches babysitters, rabbis, cantors or other trusted authority figures.

For these reasons ALL survivors of sexual violence should be seen as heroes!